The Fussball Club Basel 1893 1992–93 season was their 100th anniversary season since the club's foundation. Peter Epting took over as the club's chairman that season from Charles Röthlisberger at the Annual General Meeting in March 1993. FC Basel played their home games in the
St. Jakob Stadium
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. Following their relegation in the 1987–88 season this was their fifth season in the second tier of Swiss football.
Overview
Pre-season
Friedel Rausch
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was appointed as new trainer, following
Karl Odermatt
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and Bruno Rahmen. The duo had taken over ad interim after Ernst-August Künnecke had been sacked toward the end of the previous season. After missing promotion during the last four seasons, the club's repeated priority aim was to return to the top flight of Swiss football.
A number of players left the squad. Robert Kok, who had only been with the club the previous season, retired from active football. Three players moved on to Germany;
Mourad Bounoua
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Maximilian Heidenreich
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SC Freiburg
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. Other players transferred within the Swiss League, Walter Bernhard transferred to
Fribourg
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,
Gilbert Epars
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Football career
Epars played his youth football by Servette and joined the ...
transferred to
Urania Genève Sport
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Its main title is the Swiss cup, won in 1929 against ...
and
Boris Mancastroppa
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He is known for his starting roles with FC Red Star Zürich, FC Basel and FC Schaffhausen. Since 1996 he has been running the art gallery started by his uncle Da ...
to
Schaffhausen
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. A few other players stepped shorter, ending their professional careers and continuing as amateurs with local clubs;
Miodrag Đurđević
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went to SG Lörrach-Stetten,
Martin Thalmann
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Thalmann came through the youth system of F ...
to FC Riehen and
Vittorio Gottardi
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Gottardi first played for SC Dornach in the fourth tier of Swiss football ...
to
SC Dornach
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. Both
Roger Glanzmann
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Glanzmann played his youth football with FC Therwil and advanced to their first team in the 1987–88 season as t ...
and Rocco Verrelli left the club because their contracts were not prolonged, but both also continued as amateurs.
In the other direction
Christian Reinwald
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In the 1984–85 Nationalliga A season Reinwald was the reserve goalkeeper for St. Gallen, but never appeared in ...
joined from
Chur
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as the new second goalkeeper. Then there were two transfers from Germany, Dirk Lellek transferred in from
VfL Osnabrück
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and
Ørjan Berg
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Berg retired at the end of the 2006 season, having played for Bodø/Glimt, Wetting ...
transferred in from
1860 Munich
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. Within the Swiss League,
Mario Uccella
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joined from
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,
Marco Walker
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Walker started his youth football with local club FC Bellach. From 1983 with he was w ...
from
Lugano
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Lausanne-Sport
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Admir Smajić
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He played in the Yugoslavia national team and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.
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Born in Bijeljina,Frédéric Chassot on loan.
Patrick Rahmen
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Patrick Rahmen learned his football s ...
The 24 teams in the Nationalliga B were divided into two groups, an East and a West group. Both groups would first play a qualification round. Then in the second stage the tops six teams of each group and the last four teams of the Nationalliga A would play a promotion/relegation round, also divided into two separate groups. The top two teams in each of these groups would play in the top flight the next season. Basel were assigned to the West group, together with local rivals Old Boys. In the two local duals, Basel won both games and both with 3–0. Basel ended the Qualifying Phase in second position in the league table. In the 22 matches Basel totaled 36 points with 16 victories, four draws and two defeats. The team scored 54 goals and conceded only 10.
Basel thus qualified for the promotion stage and were assigned to group A. Further teams assigned to this group from the Nationalliga B were
Delémont
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The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...
Luzern
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,
Locarno
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and Wil. Assigned to this group and fighting against relegation from the Nationalliga A were
Bulle
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and Grasshopper Club. Basel ended the promotion stage in a very disappointing fourth position in the league table. The 14 matches resulted in seven victories, four draws and three defeats with 18 points, scoring 25, conceding 17 goals. Therefore, Basel missed promotion again.
Swiss Cup
Basel entered the
Swiss Cup
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The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The co ...
in the second round. Here they were drawn away from home against lower-tier local team FC Baudepartement Basel.
André Sitek
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scored a hat-trick between the 12th and the 31st minute as Basel won 6–0. In the third round they were drawn at home to local rivals Old Boys and this was won 4–0. Basel were drawn away against lower-tier
SC Young Fellows Juventus
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in the third round and this was won 3–0. In the round of 16 they were again drawn at home, also against a lower-tier team,
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. All four games were won without the team conceding a single goal. However, in the quarterfinals Basel played at home against higher-tier Xamax. Because this match ended with a 2–3 defeat they were eliminated from the competition. Xamax were defeated in the semi-final by
Lugano
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History of FC Basel
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References
Sources
* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG.
* Die ersten 125 Jahre / 2018. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
The FCB squad 1992–93 at fcb-archiv.ch
Basel
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